Sensor-actuator networks (SANs) are a new approach for the physically-based animation of objects. The user supplies the configuratíon of a mechanical system that hás been augmen...
The appearance of a rough surface is affected by the direction from which it is lit and texture classifiers should account for this. We propose a classifier that is robust to ligh...
Mike J. Chantler, Ged McGunnigle, A. Penirschke, M...
We propose a novel probabilistic method based on the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) to learn the structure of a Latent Variable Model (LVM) for query language modeling. In the proposed...
This paper presents a syntax-driven approach to question answering, specifically the answer-sentence selection problem for short-answer questions. Rather than using syntactic fea...
Much of the work on opponent modeling for game tree search has been unsuccessful. In two-player, zero-sum games, the gains from opponent modeling are often outweighed by the cost ...
Nathan R. Sturtevant, Martin Zinkevich, Michael H....